Amorphous solid

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In condensed matter physics and materials science, an amorphous solid (from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ (a) 'without' and μορφή (morphḗ) 'shape, form'), or non-crystalline solid, is a solid that lacks the long-range order that is a characteristic of a crystal.

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